“After the Literacy Project’s call for bids for a computer to accompany the TV programmes and literature, Acorn won the contract with the Proton, which was renamed the BBC Micro and was adopted by most schools in the United Kingdom, changing Acorn’s fortunes. It was also moderately successful as a home computer in the UK despite its high cost.” (Wikipedia)

Below is a screenshot of an an Elite game from Acornsoft (1984). The full description and technical specifications are available on Wikipedia – just clickHERE.

Here is a table of common nouns which are normally uncountable. This means that they don’t have a plural form, nor are they preceded by ‘a’ or ‘an’ (usually). Many are words that you find in the business world, so it’s good to learn them and make yourself and your company look good!

advice

air

art

blood

butter

data

deodorant

equipment

evidence

food

furniture

garbage

graffiti

grass

homework

information

knowledge

luggage

mathematics

meat

milk

money

music

paper

pollution

progress

sand

soap

software

sugar

traffic

transport

trash

water

wood

For example, you cannot say, “I got some good advices from them.” We have to say, “We got some good pieces of advice from them” or “We got some good advice from them.” The same works for ‘information’ and ‘knowledge’. READ MORE

The New Year celebrations are over, it’s time to get back to studying business English, presentation skills, emailing, writing instructions – whatever you want.

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So, what are you going to find in my new book? Take a sneak peek at the contents page and find out just how many things you will need to know before you step up in front of that audience. Learn from my own experience that it won’t be OK to just climb up on that stage, or stride into that conference room and read from those slides you were given by your boss. The great art of giving a presentation involves so much more forethought and preparation.READ MORE: